1. Which English artist, inspired by Japanese woodcuts, illustrated the 1894 edition of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé?
2. Which English children’s author and mathematician wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
3. Which popular cartoonist drew cartoons for Punch magazine and illustrations for the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel?
4. What chemical used by clothing manufacturers of the Victorian era easily burns when near a flame?
5. In the Victorian era, socks were made with what material that inflamed men’s feet and gave garment workers sores and even bladder cancer?
6. Who started the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1860s, rebelling against industrialization?
7. Which husband-and-wife comedy duo had their origins in 17th-century Italian commedia dell’arte and was still popular in the late 19th century, especially in puppetry?
8. Marie Duval created which popular comic-strip character who was impecunious, pompous, and dressed in shabby old-fashioned attire?
9. Which type of portraiture was popular in Victorian times?
10. Which libel suit resulted in one of the most notorious trials in the history of art?
11. Which science-fiction author wrote The Invisible Man?
12. Which Victorian artist, admired for his draftsmanship, produced depictions of Classical antiquity that were a central source of inspiration for the film Gladiator (2000)?
13. Who was married to Queen Victoria for 21 years?
14. Whose serialized novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby, led people to associate the author’s name with the poor conditions in which the Victorian lower classes lived?
15. Which event, lasting from 1845 to 1849, was responsible for approximately one million deaths and mass emigration?
16. Where was the first international exhibition, or world’s fair, held, presenting new technology and cultural exhibits from around the world?
17. Which prominent feature of London was installed as part of the great clock of Westminster in 1859?
18. Who wrote On the Origin of Species, which was published in 1859?
19. Which group, formed in 1848 by young British artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais, opposed the Royal Academy of Art’s artistic practices and sensibilities?